Gen Musharraf after coming to power through a military coup on October 12, 1999 decided to boost up and modernize electronic media by allowing foreign ownership in the name of freedom of expression and to show soft image of Pakistan to the west. His concept of enlightened moderation also had similar ambition of promoting liberalism. Private TV channels were given a free hand to broadcast their own
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Could a blood stained tyranny and authoritarianism free the Arab masses from an ultimate cold blooded massacre? This is what millions of strained human beings are asking today in Aleppo, Baghdad, Mosul, Idlib, Yemen and greater parts of the Arabian Peninsula. Could Bashar Al-Assad be tried for war crimes as was the case with the former Serbian President convicted by the ICC at The Hague? Over th
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Arab Leaders Facing Consequences of Their Own Follies Should the global community pity or ridicule the Arab leaders for engineering their own pitfalls of self-destruction? Life and wisdom are narrated by compassion and positive moving stories of human peace and harmony. The cruel rivalries forging sectarian bloodbath at Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Mosul, and Yemen make no sense.Had they believed
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The US-led forces invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq under a false pretext of war on terrorism. For over 225 years, warmongering has been an integral part of the American political psyche and history. Now, it is the turn of Saudi Arabia an ally and friend, being told by the US Congress either to compensate the 9/11 victims or face dreadful consequences - the hidden congressional political a
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Four men riding two motor bikes struck again and killed five persons in Nazimabad, Karachi today. Was it a target killing, a sectarian killing by some religious extremists or just a terrorists’ act? Whatever it was, it was horrendous to say the least. However, our leaders and commanders will pay the perfunctory lip service to the dead, attend the routine funeral prayer (if they find time) and an
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Imran Khan (IK) and his partner Sheikh Rashid pursuing politics of agitation since mid-2014 are once again on a rampage and are determined to lock down Islamabad (Isbd) and seize power by force. Their tantrums have shot up the political temperature to a boiling point and has intensified uncertainty and insecurity. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief MinisterPervez Khattak along with PTI workers is e
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Inayatullah Khan (famously known as Allama Mashriqi) and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk were contemporaries who areregarded as two of the great leaders of the 20thcentury. Throughout his lifetime, Mashriqi expressed a fondness for Turkey and Ataturk. On Ataturk’s 78th death anniversary, it is worth remembering how these two leaders were connected. Both Ataturk and Mashriqiwere born in the 1880s,Mashriqi
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The recipe for unending catastrophe Whatever massive is the cost of establishing a core Islamic civilization state –the Islamic Khilafa, the benefits are immense. The human history has been witness to enormous benefits of such a state in the past. No state or institution could match its contribution. In the whole span of human history, it is the only example of civilizational excellence of the wh
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The political temperature that had begun to boil from 28 October onward became menacing on the following three days, but mercifully it scaled down dramatically on the evening of November 01 after Imran Khan (IK) decided to call off his much hyped foray into Islamabad (Isbd) on November 2. IK led PTI had been drumming up the Panama papers scandal since April 2016 and straining their lungs to demean
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